Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

131 reviews

yuna's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Terminal illness

achiunicorn's review

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Miscarriage, Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Terminal illness

princessdana36's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

4.5 stars. I really loved the book and the accounts of all of the Radium Girls. I do think it was written in too much detail, but the stories were amazing. I couldn’t imagine fighting with every single last breath I had for justice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Cancer, Body horror, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Blood

iang186's review

dark emotional informative inspiring tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death of parent

diannaphantomfiction's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

My only issue with this book was the length. While I understand telling the full story, at times the chapters seemed to drag. 

Otherwise, it has been a long time since I read a story that made me feel all the emotions possible, from disgust to hope. This was an absolutely wonderful read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Ableism, Death, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Body horror, and Cancer

Moderate: Infertility, Body horror, Gore, and Miscarriage

Minor: Domestic abuse

This is all true, so it will feel fairly heavy at times, but all of this present, sometimes in graphic detail

rbsinger's review

dark informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

ashley_briana26's review

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book is a respectful telling of the lives of the Radium Girls. I came into this knowing nothing about them except that they existed and I closed this book only two days later and I have a much better understanding of the situation and the girls. This takes them from a vague concept of workplace safety and transforms them into real women that lived, worked, suffered, and died. The respect the author has for these victims is evident in her writing. This is not a bland statement of facts but a real story that’s being told that makes it easy to read. I highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical trauma, Murder, Death, Grief, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness

Minor: Miscarriage, Infertility, War, Abortion, and Death of parent

billiema3's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Death

notapenguin's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infertility, and Miscarriage

greenlivingaudioworm's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Murder, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness